faith, Jesus, and a conversation on the road
A sermon for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, Luke 10:25-37 It is often helpful to reframe the stories of the gospels into our own contemporary understanding. To take the story from 2000 years ago and make it relatable to current events, cultural understanding, language that we use and relate to now. This can be especially … Continue reading naming the Samaritan today
A weekly Rector's Notes Article, June 10, 2019 As we enter into the summer season, there is a tendency to switch off of church for a while. Whether you are out at a lake, sleeping in on Sundays, heading out for a hike, shooting down to Portland (or up to Seattle) or any of the … Continue reading summer @ church
A sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, John 14:23-29 Being a Christian, doing the work that we are called to do, to live a life that runs counter to the prevailing culture, to stand against those who would make others less than, who would create levels of society where lack of care and concern, … Continue reading an advocate for peace
A weekly Rector's Notes article, January 28, 2019 A concern for environmental justice needs to be a principle concern of Christians. This concern extends beyond a simple understanding that we are tasked with being the stewards of this creation but also that, as Christians, we are tasked with seeking an ethical approach to understanding not just how we interact with and steward … Continue reading christian ethics and environmentalism
A sermon for the Feast Day of St. Stephen, transferred to coincide with the 2019 Annual Meeting, Acts 6:8-7:2a, 51c-60 First, a confession: The Feast of St. Stephen is not what one would traditionally call a “moveable” feast, but it also has the misfortune of being on one of the two or three days that people are least likely to want to go to church if there isn’t already a long-established tradition, December 26. … Continue reading St. Stephen
